...my wife's and mine among them...
Yet the liberal anti-gun, chicken little idiots in states that are proposing "shall issue" permits for it's citizens STILL scream about "shootouts over fenderbenders" and "blood in the streets".
It is not about guns, it is about control.
Yet the liberal anti-gun, chicken little idiots in states that are proposing "shall issue" permits for it's citizens STILL scream about "shootouts over fenderbenders" and "blood in the streets".
It is not about guns, it is about control.
Flip side: Massachusetts has very strict gun-control laws. And the Boston murder rate is at its highest point in 10 years.
Hmph?! What's with Texas? Loss of backbone? :)
Great article. Count me in the CHL stats as well.
The Second Amendment works everytime.
---should be forced reading for the Wisconsin state legislature, whose buffoons are presently yapping about "blood in the streets", etc.---vis-a-vis concealed carry--
I'm glad that we now have "shall issue" carry in TX, thanks in no small part to Patterson, but if we truly had our "constitutional right to keep and bear arms" restored, we wouldn't have to apply and pay for permission to do so.
BANG! (I'm your huckleberry..)
Too bad the sheeple the City/County of San Francisco, CA weren't smart enough to learn from Texas' success. About 60% of them voted to ban handguns all together.
No, no, no...guns kill people. Didn't you get the DNC talking points memo today? More guns = more dead people, plain and simple. Didn't you get Teddy's memo? You know, that murderer that's killed more people with his car than I have with my assault rifle.
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Once again, an armed society is a polite society.
Violent criminals become polite.
The effect of the Concealed Handgun Law has been so positive, it has converted some of its most outspoken initial critics.
Just not enough.
I'd be looking for some anecdotes that back up the statistics; e.g., instances where someone with a firearm interceded, and stopped, a crime.
Excellent post! I would love to send this out to some of my liberal buddies, then again they'd find something emotional to start crying about. Facts are wasted on libs anyways.
How could permits increase murder rates? I suspect that any increase in the number of people who carry is accounted for by a few more women with guns in their purses.
This is a very interesting article, and not surprising in light of John Lott's research.
And I did some research on the Wild West for my first novel (set in 1870's Colorado). The shooting that was done was to enforce the law (at a time when the representatives of the law were few and far between) and stop the (few in number) outlaws that were terrorizing innocent citizens.
It wasn't like people were just shooting each other up for the heck of it.
There was one story I loved about a woman who had a small handgun--was it called the Ladies' Equalizer?--and pulled it out to stop an accused criminal when he tried to bust out of his trial.
I will look it up--I sent the book I had on this ("The Gunslingers," I think it's called--a gorgeous coffee table book with lots of great pictures and history) to a friend of mine whose grandfather was a Wyoming rodeo champion.
Okay, is it possible at all to tell I love Western history? LOL!
The clarification of home defense law took place about then too IIRC, the so-called "make my day" provision arrived.
Home invasions dropped as a result, rarely read about them now and if you do it's usually between druggies.